The Harlem Renaissance Research and Presentation Project
This project assesses...
Your ability to research an artist, their artistic medium and connect both to the Harlem Renaissance.
Your ability to present the information orally to your classmates in a 3-4 minute presentation.
The project: You will select one artist from the Harlem Renaissance, research the person and his/her artistic medium. Using your research, you will create a four slide presentation and a four paragraph overview of the presentation. The presentations will be given in class and must be 3-4 minutes long.
Part 1: Create at least one slide in your presentation that addresses each of the following questions:
Who is this person and with what artistic medium did they work?
What is one major accomplishment or piece of work from the artist?
What Harlem Renaissance themes did their work focus on?
How did your artist interact with other artists during the Harlem Renaissance? (1 example)
Why is this artist important to the Harlem Renaissance?
Part 2: Google Docs Portion (Shared with Mr. Larcom only)
A one page analysis of the piece you have chosen and how it relates to three key themes of the Harlem Renaissance.
Three quiz questions the class should be able to answer after viewing your presentation.
Works cited page with at least three scholarly resources used in your research
You may choose an artist from the lists below or find your own. You must focus your research on the work your artist did during the Harlem Renaissance Era (1920-1935).
Possible artists and the medium:
Thought or social philosophy: W.E.B. Dubois, Alain Locke Poetry: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay Literature: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes Music: Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Bassie, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday Your own artist: Someone who was prolific in Harlem between 1920-1935.
The Harlem Renaissance Research and Presentation Project
This project assesses...
The project: You will select one artist from the Harlem Renaissance, research the person and his/her artistic medium. Using your research, you will create a four slide presentation and a four paragraph overview of the presentation. The presentations will be given in class and must be 3-4 minutes long.
Part 1: Create at least one slide in your presentation that addresses each of the following questions:
Part 2: Google Docs Portion (Shared with Mr. Larcom only)
You may choose an artist from the lists below or find your own. You must focus your research on the work your artist did during the Harlem Renaissance Era (1920-1935).
Possible artists and the medium:
Thought or social philosophy: W.E.B. Dubois, Alain Locke
Poetry: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay
Literature: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes
Music: Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Bassie, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Billie Holliday
Your own artist: Someone who was prolific in Harlem between 1920-1935.